Before becoming family entertainment, pantomime centred around the lawless mayhem perpetrated by the Clown. Continue reading
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Tolstoy and Vegetarianism
In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy developed a moral philosophy that embraced, amongst other things, vegetarianism. But how did Tolstoy’s stance compare to the wider vegetarian movement of the late-nineteenth century? Continue reading
The Idea of ‘Britain’
National identity is a funny old business, shaped as much by beliefs, fears and contradictions as they are by anything tangible. Continue reading